Comments on: NCAA board ‘overwhelmingly’ approves Power Five autonomyhttp://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/08/07/ncaa-board-overwhelmingly-approves-power-five-autonomy/
CollegeFootballTalk on NBCSports.comTue, 03 Mar 2015 22:15:55 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Debhttp://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/08/07/ncaa-board-overwhelmingly-approves-power-five-autonomy/#comment-181563
Fri, 08 Aug 2014 02:59:30 +0000http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=331437#comment-181563I’m no happier than anyone else to see our traditions change. But that’s already happened. It’s not Grandpa’s game anymore. It’s a multi-billion-dollar business where the lion’s share of revenue is generated through those Power Five conferences, and the only people not profiting from that revenue are the guys taking all the risks on the field.

Yes, some of these players wind up making a big payday in the pros. But the majority have been working full-time as players while trying to maintain their grades and fearing they’ll lose their scholarships if a booster buys them a pizza. Yeah, yeah … the stars are the spoiled Big Men on Campus. But let them suffer a career-ending injury as a student and they wind up with nothing while the school and EA Sports (until recently) continue to make a fortune on their merchandise and image.

It’s wrong and it’s been wrong for a long time. We all love tradition, but football is never going back to the good old days.

If you really love the game, don’t begrudge the players their compensation. This isn’t the end of college football. The real threat to the game is that parents will decide it’s not worth the health risks and stop their kids from playing it at the Pee Wee, junior high, and high school level. Then we won’t have to worry about what happens in college ball.

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Fri, 08 Aug 2014 00:58:13 +0000http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=331437#comment-181552Good call. The games against non P5 schools are normally boring. This will increase the SOS and not make it where the first four games are gimme games.

Hopefully this moves toward more P5 just playing each other.

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Thu, 07 Aug 2014 23:58:03 +0000http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=331437#comment-181546My favorite team is in one of the so-called “power conferences”, so you’d think I’d be happy about this. I’m not. I think this will ultimately prove to be the undoing of college football as we know it, and NOT in a good way.
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Thu, 07 Aug 2014 22:14:36 +0000http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=331437#comment-181535So is the “true cost of attendance” aka… Pay for play…money taxable??
Who will pay the taxes??
How will the amount be decided ($2000, $5000, or some random amount $2999.95) and will every athlete receive the same amount or will they show preference of one athlete over another??

Are any of these details worked out yet or are the P5 conferences taking a page out of Obamas play book trying to solve a problem by throwing money at it….ready….fire….aim!!!

This has disaster written ALL over it….

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Thu, 07 Aug 2014 20:50:47 +0000http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=331437#comment-181529The NCAA had no real choice, but this still will mark their downfall. The power conferences no longer need the NCAA and will tolerate them for a while, but at some point they’ll get tired of them and just withdraw to totally run their show on their own.
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Thu, 07 Aug 2014 19:31:01 +0000http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=331437#comment-181517Uh, yeah, the “two-month gap” is what has me perplexing, John. Oy vey.

A good day for Monopoly®, say the powdered-wigs of college athletic enterprise.

And a good opening line.

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Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:47:39 +0000http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=331437#comment-181509This is the first step towards turning Power Five football into a minor league for the NFL. In a few years very few mid-major teams will be on a Power Five schedule. There will be no more Cinderella stories like Boise, Utah and TCU (prior to joining their new leagues). If this rule was in effect 100 years ago nobody would have ever heard of Notre Dame. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Mid-Majors launch an anti-trust suit because they are not effectively shut out from the chance of TV contracts and a National Championship,
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Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:39:42 +0000http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=331437#comment-181507Will be interesting to see how some of the “haves” spin this for recruiting. The impact will be fairly significant I expect.
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Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:30:03 +0000http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=331437#comment-181504RIP College Football and tradition
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Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:06:26 +0000http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=331437#comment-181495Another sad–sad day in sports

Is it too late to become an attorney??
Heaven knows that 17yr olds that don’t have the best understanding of legal binding contracts that involve money will be needing them… Both in signing and breaking them…

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Thu, 07 Aug 2014 17:51:02 +0000http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=331437#comment-181494Time for the other conferences to just move to the FCS. It’s clear they are the tail wagging the dog.
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Thu, 07 Aug 2014 17:48:39 +0000http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=331437#comment-181493The NYT’s take on it:

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Thu, 07 Aug 2014 17:47:33 +0000http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=331437#comment-181492Now I see why Chris Peterson left Boise State, he’d never be able to compete with these rules.
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